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Episode 17: Interview with Pixar’s Chris Horne

Morgan Stradling by Morgan Stradling
August 1, 2012
in Animation Addicts Podcast, Pixar, Podcasts
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Morgan and Mason interview Chris Horne, a technical director at Pixar! They talk about Chris’s journey to Pixar; his work on Brave, Finding Nemo 3D and other films; and his advice for aspiring animation students.

Highlights:

  • Thoughts on the hilarious stop-motion shorts, Creature Comforts
  • Interview: Pixar’s Chris Horne
  • Chris’s background: how he got interested in animation, Pixar, the college years
  • What’s the process of getting hired by a big studio like Pixar?
  • Chris on being a Pixar fanboy working for Pixar.
  • About the lighting, rendering and Lightspeed departments
  • What do the lighting and rendering departments actually do?
  • Chris talks about crazy and hilarious software glitches, bloopers and malfunctions!
  • New animation software: Presto
  • Lighting an animated shot: balancing realism vs. cartoony
  • What part of Brave he worked on: the hardest scene Pixar’s ever done, cake cauldron scene,
  • Hair simulation
  • Every character has its own posse of lights
  • How big is the team that worked on the 3D conversion of Finding Nemo 3D?
  • What is “bit rot”?
  • Must see 3D movies: Avatar and Finding Nemo 3D
  • Nerdy questions: pizza planet truck, the witch’s inspired by Zelda?, who would win in a fight: King Fergus or Stoick the Vast?
  • What is Chris working on now? What’s the deal with Finding Nemo 2?
  • Where he wants to go from here/career goals
  • How important is a demo reel? Advice for animation students

Runtime: 1:08:01, 32.7 MB

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Morgan is an Arizona native who's had a lifelong passion for animation. Her favorite animated films are Aladdin, Beauty & the Beast, and The Iron Giant. She earned an MBA in Marketing from Arizona State University and now runs her own business where she coaches and trains entrepreneurs how to launch, grow & scale successful online businesses.

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